paul.knibbs and skanker, your comments are spot-on!

This loathsome ranking system has been in use at Logica, where I work, for several years.

I am in a similar situation to Mr Knibbs. It is hard enough getting another job in the same field when you are 54 let alone a different one,...

"Success Trap" - nice euphemism for specialising yourself into unemployability.

Employers have their part to play in this - there is a growing culture that you can

only do a job...

I agree with Lon-860191. Profanity is inappropriate in technical writing and in presentations.

To my mind there is a word of difference between spoken profanity (which I occasionally succumb to)...

At Logica, we are issued with laptops rather than desktop machines, an arrangement I

am happy with. They provide monitors too so we don't have to use a small...

I became very cynical about product-specific qualifications back in the mid-90's when I was a freelance PowerBuilder developer. I took the Powerbuilder certification exams (2 papers, each with a...

Well I for one would be happy to be getting $75,000 (GBP46,450) and even happier if I thought it would go up by a minimum of 2% just for keeping...

If you made an uncontrolled change to a system in the way you describe, that is really no better than the person who put the suspected malicious code in.

Better to...

I work for Logica in the UK. They have a more enlightened view of home working, allow many employees to do so and actively encourage everyone to do so...

Followed the link but could not find the article referred to. But anything placed on a blog is in the public domain, so you have to assume your employer...

I tend to agree with Nakul in thinking that the customer's perception of a bug should be considered in the prioritisation process. If it is a minor problem but...

I think that feeling of insecurity is one of the drivers that makes us learn. I think one quickly realises in this profession that it isn't possible to learn...